Improvement in wagon-covers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'CHARLES CREMER, OF RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA.

'IMPROVEMENT IN WGON-COVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 81,047, dated August l5, i876; application filed June 12, 1876.

To all lwhom 'it may concern:

' Be it known that I, CHARLES GREMER, of Red Bluff', Tehama county, California, have invented a new and Improved Ventilated Wagon-Cover, ot' 'which the following is a specification: 1

Figure lis a top view of'l a wagon-box t0 Which my improved cover has been applied; and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same, taken through line a' a', Fig. 1.

' Similar' letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved cover for theboxes of Wagons, cars, and other vehicles for transporting swine, calves, sheep, fowls, &c., which shalt be so constructed as to -allow the air to have free passage' to the animals while confining them securely. l

The invention consists in the combination of the net, the four rods, the connecting snaphooks and rings, and the holding snap-hooks, with the body or box of a wagon, car, or other vehicle, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents the bodyT or box of a Wagon, car, or other vehicle. V'B represents a net of such a size asto cover the box A, and overl lap its sides and ends. 'Through the meshes of the sides' and ends of the net B are passed the rods C D. The end rods D have rings d attached to their ends to receive the snaphooks c attached to the ends of the side rods C, thus forming a frame upon which net B is stretched. E are snap-hooks, secured to the sides and ends of the box A by keepers F, to receive the rods C D, and hold them securely.

By this construction the animals Will be securely conned, and at the same time will have the benetitot a free circulation ot' air. By this construction, also, by unhooking thc ends of the rear rod D and withdrawing it from the meshes ot' the net B, the rear endboard of' the box A may be removed to allow some of the-animals to be taken out or others putin, While guarding against the escape of any. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the net B, the rods C D, the connecting snap-hooks c', and rings d', and the holding snap-hooks E, with the body or box A of a Wagon, car, or other vehicle, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES CREMER.

Witnesses:

W. H. BAIINEY, G. T. ALvoRD. 

